Two annoying issues
I’ve been using ZorinOS Core 18 for a few months now. It’s fully updated and almost everything works perfectly. But there are two separate issues that have been bothering me and starting to get frustrating. The first one is related to the microphone.
I work from home and have several meetings throughout the day. I have a BM800 microphone and a Redragon headset with a mic, and neither device is recognized by the operating system. The Redragon is actually detected, but there’s no audio input at all, even after tweaking settings in Alsamixer.
On my previous machine (an Acer Nitro 5), I only had to change a few settings and everything worked fine — both devices were recognized. But on my current laptop (a Nitro V15), that same fix didn’t work at all, it didn’t make any difference. What I changed was:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
and I added the line:
options snd-hda-intel model=alc245,dell-headset-multi
The second issue is related to gaming: if I Alt + Tab, the game freezes and I’m forced to restart it.
Any ideas on how to fix these issues?